Imperial Palace, City of Rome "Whereas other senators may have been millionaires, the Emperor was a billionaire." Ray Laurence "Roman Passions, A History of Pleasure in Imperial Rome" Myra sat and silently observed as the sculptor worked on the statue. He would look at Commodus, his eyes squintin...
A morning of jousting with a couple of experienced gladiators had set his blood coursing. It had turned out to be just the right thing to wake him up and make him feel alive. He had removed his armor and then his tunic contenting himself to walk back through the imperial gardens barefoot only in ...